User group Newsletter Editors: Utilize this content in your newsletter -- PLEASE ... reference UG Network Channel ... Shareware Manager is coming: YUM! Show us the shareware! The Info Manager is looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below Info Manager - 11/24/Y2K Apple Store; Copernic; LCIII; Pentium 4; iVisit . Apple Store The San Jose Mercury News reported on November 16th that Apple has leased land in Palo Alto for the purpose of opening a company owned store. They are reporting that Apple is following in the footsteps of Gateway and that this store is the prototype for further stores to be opened around the country. The rumor about Apple Stores has been around for a couple of years now, it looks like it might actually happen now. More at: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/apple111700.htm . Copernic I have talked about Copernic in the past. It has been updated to Copernic 2000 for Windows machines, but development for the Mac version was stopped on Copernic 1999. David Egger of MacMonkey is organizing an effort to get the development continued on the Mac. Copernic is an Internet search tool very similar to Sherlock in the MacOS, but some feel it does the searching much better. I couldn't find it on this trip, but previously there was even a version for 68K machines. For more info on this campaign go to: http://www.macmonkey.com/news.php?task=view&articleID=21 . LCIIIs I know you are asking what is new about Mac LCIIIs. Well, there is an interesting article on using LCIIIs purchased via eBay to help special students. Check it out at: http://www.mathdittos2.com/columns/view/v001120.html You would think more MUGs would get involved in topics like this. . Pentium 4 Going from an old computer to the newest processor. IDG has a good review of the Pentium 4 at: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=369097. One of the things they are stating is that the Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz is actually slower in some tasks than the 1 GHz Pentium 3. I guess that what Apple has been saying all along is true. Processor speed doesn't matter it is what it does while it is going through its cycles. Oh, well, the Pentium 4 will undoubtedly be a big hit in the market. 1.5 does sound like it is 50% faster than 1.0. . iVisit Want video conference software that works cross platform? I haven't tried it, but the folks at iVisit seem to be giving away their software. I don't understand how they are paying their bills. See it at: http://www.ivisit.com/index.htm . Web Site of the Week: Use your Mac in a Windows office? Or have both platforms at home and want to connect them? This web site tells you how to do all that and more. See: http://www.macwindows.com/ Quote of the Week: "The key to change is to let go of fear." - Rosanne Cash . pau **** Don't forget ... the Info Manager invites you to use all or part of his column in your user group newsletter. Please let him know, and if possible send an electronic copy for the old scrapbook. Any suggestions for topics and reports of rumors are always welcome. Please me know. Thanks The Info Manager is a veteran of the UGN (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network. He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member, he's served as volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and many points in between. Currently working with the Apple Corp of Dallas, the Dallas Mac Pack, Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth and TUMS (the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society) doing newsletter articles and the monthly CD-ROM Update. Post a lead Rumor Manager should follow up on. Subscribe to Rumors@lists.user-groups.net rumors-on@lists.user-groups.net for more information go to: http://www.user-groups.net/ugcommunity/subscribe.html UG Network Channel _ / _ NEWS _ / _ UG Library _ / _ UG Bookshelf Article Reprints -- User Group Network Affiliates may reprint articles as long as full credit is given. Other Non-profit or non-commercial publications should contact us. The UGNN cannot guarantee accuracy or timeliness of articles. Many have been forwarded to us by field correspondents, or press release services. All care is taken to assure the accuracy of URLs and email addresses. Some items may be 30 to 60 days old. The User Group Network is an affiliate of the News-Serve Network - All commercial names herein, including publication, product, and company names are assumed to be the registered trademarks of their companies. UGN, UGNN, UGNet News, UG Idea Exchange, are all trademarks for The User Group Network, copyright 2001, all rights reserved. Copyright 2001, The User Group Network, http://www.user-groups.net/News-Service.